Recycling and Reclamation Workers
Tasks Include:
- Sort materials, such as metals, glass, wood, paper or plastics, into appropriate containers for recycling.
- Operate forklifts, pallet jacks, power lifts, or front-end loaders to load bales, bundles, or other heavy items onto trucks for shipping to smelters or other recycled materials processing facilities.
- Sort metals to separate high-grade metals, such as copper, brass, and aluminum, for recycling.
- Clean recycling yard by sweeping, raking, picking up broken glass and loose paper debris, or moving barrels and bins.
- Clean, inspect, or lubricate recyclable collection equipment or perform routine maintenance or minor repairs on recycling equipment, such as star gears, finger sorters, destoners, belts, and grinders.
The data sources for the information displayed here include: O*NET™; US Department of Labor (BLS); Virginia Workforce Connection. (Using onet28)
Projections Quick View:
Virginia: +14.4%
National: +6.0%
Education
High School Diploma
Job Zone:
Two: Some Preparation Needed
Income Range:
Moderately High ($36,000 - $49,999)
Median Earnings:
National
$36,110.00
State
$35,570.00
Regional
Recycling and Reclamation Workers
Description
Career Cluster: | Manufacturing |
Prepare and sort materials or products for recycling. Identify and remove hazardous substances. Dismantle components of products such as appliances.
The data sources for the information displayed here include: O*NET™. (Using onet28)
Recycling and Reclamation Workers
Education
Required Level of Education
- High School Diploma - or the equivalent (for example, GED) = 74.12%
- Associate's Degree (or other 2-year degree) = 14.55%
- Doctoral Degree = 8.01%
- Less than a High School Diploma = 1.87%
- Post-Secondary Certificate - awarded for training completed after high school (for example, in agriculture or natural resources, computer services, personal or culinary services, engineering technologies, healthcare, construction trades, mechanic and repair technologies, or precision production) = 1.45%
Related Work Experience
- Over 6 months, up to and including 1 year = 29.71%
- None = 26.20%
- Over 3 months, up to and including 6 months = 21.47%
- Over 1 month, up to and including 3 months = 19.98%
- Over 1 year, up to and including 2 years = 1.66%
- Over 2 years, up to and including 4 years = 0.62%
- Up to and including 1 month = 0.36%
On-Site or In-Plant Training
- Over 3 months, up to and including 6 months = 29.70%
- Over 6 months, up to and including 1 year = 21.02%
- Up to and including 1 month = 18.44%
- Over 1 month, up to and including 3 months = 15.88%
- None = 10.51%
- Over 1 year, up to and including 2 years = 4.45%
On-the-Job Training
- Anything beyond short demonstration, up to and including 1 month = 35.53%
- Over 1 month, up to and including 3 months = 21.78%
- Over 3 months, up to and including 6 months = 15.72%
- None or short demonstration = 13.86%
- Over 6 months, up to and including 1 year = 8.66%
- Over 1 year, up to and including 2 years = 4.45%
The data sources for the information displayed here include: O*NET™. (Using onet28)
Recycling and Reclamation Workers
Tasks
Core Tasks Include:
- Sort materials, such as metals, glass, wood, paper or plastics, into appropriate containers for recycling.
- Operate forklifts, pallet jacks, power lifts, or front-end loaders to load bales, bundles, or other heavy items onto trucks for shipping to smelters or other recycled materials processing facilities.
- Sort metals to separate high-grade metals, such as copper, brass, and aluminum, for recycling.
- Clean recycling yard by sweeping, raking, picking up broken glass and loose paper debris, or moving barrels and bins.
- Clean, inspect, or lubricate recyclable collection equipment or perform routine maintenance or minor repairs on recycling equipment, such as star gears, finger sorters, destoners, belts, and grinders.
Supplemental Tasks Include:
- Cut discarded products, such as appliances and automobiles, into small pieces using saws, blow torches, or other hand or power tools.
- Extract chemicals from discarded appliances, such as air conditioners or refrigerators, using specialized machinery, such as refrigerant recovery equipment.
- Collect recyclable materials from curbside for delivery to designated facilities.
- Deposit recoverable materials into chutes or place materials on conveyor belts.
- Dismantle wrecked vehicles by removing parts and labeling and sorting parts into containers.
- Operate automated refuse or manual recycling collection vehicles.
- Operate balers to compress recyclable materials into bundles or bales.
- Operate processing equipment, such as fiber-sorters and grinders, to sort, crush, or grind recyclable materials.
- Operate shredders to reclaim steel from discarded appliances.
- Record logs of recycled materials or waste chemicals removed from products.
- Clean materials, such as metals, according to recycling requirements.
- Collect and sort recyclable construction materials, such as concrete, drywall, plastics, or wood, into containers.
- Remove copper from circuit boards.
The data sources for the information displayed here include: O*NET™. (Using onet28)
Recycling and Reclamation Workers
Knowledge
% | Subject | Description |
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72.00 | Production and Processing | Knowledge of raw materials, production processes, quality control, costs, and other techniques for maximizing the effective manufacture and distribution of goods. |
62.75 | Mechanical | Knowledge of machines and tools, including their designs, uses, repair, and maintenance. |
62.25 | Administration and Management | Knowledge of business and management principles involved in strategic planning, resource allocation, human resources modeling, leadership technique, production methods, and coordination of people and resources. |
62.00 | Public Safety and Security | Knowledge of relevant equipment, policies, procedures, and strategies to promote effective local, state, or national security operations for the protection of people, data, property, and institutions. |
58.75 | Education and Training | Knowledge of principles and methods for curriculum and training design, teaching and instruction for individuals and groups, and the measurement of training effects. |
55.25 | Customer and Personal Service | Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction. |
52.50 | English Language | Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar. |
50.50 | Personnel and Human Resources | Knowledge of principles and procedures for personnel recruitment, selection, training, compensation and benefits, labor relations and negotiation, and personnel information systems. |
The data sources for the information displayed here include: O*NET™. (Using onet28)
Recycling and Reclamation Workers
Skills
% | Subject | Description |
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56.25 | Operation and Control | Controlling operations of equipment or systems. |
53.00 | Active Listening | Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times. |
53.00 | Monitoring | Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action. |
53.00 | Operations Monitoring | Watching gauges, dials, or other indicators to make sure a machine is working properly. |
The data sources for the information displayed here include: O*NET™. (Using onet28)
Recycling and Reclamation Workers
Abilities
% | Subject | Description |
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68.75 | Manual Dexterity | The ability to quickly move your hand, your hand together with your arm, or your two hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble objects. |
65.50 | Control Precision | The ability to quickly and repeatedly adjust the controls of a machine or a vehicle to exact positions. |
62.50 | Multilimb Coordination | The ability to coordinate two or more limbs (for example, two arms, two legs, or one leg and one arm) while sitting, standing, or lying down. It does not involve performing the activities while the whole body is in motion. |
62.50 | Near Vision | The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer). |
62.50 | Arm-Hand Steadiness | The ability to keep your hand and arm steady while moving your arm or while holding your arm and hand in one position. |
56.25 | Category Flexibility | The ability to generate or use different sets of rules for combining or grouping things in different ways. |
56.25 | Trunk Strength | The ability to use your abdominal and lower back muscles to support part of the body repeatedly or continuously over time without "giving out" or fatiguing. |
56.25 | Finger Dexterity | The ability to make precisely coordinated movements of the fingers of one or both hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble very small objects. |
53.00 | Oral Comprehension | The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences. |
53.00 | Oral Expression | The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand. |
53.00 | Information Ordering | The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations). |
53.00 | Flexibility of Closure | The ability to identify or detect a known pattern (a figure, object, word, or sound) that is hidden in other distracting material. |
53.00 | Perceptual Speed | The ability to quickly and accurately compare similarities and differences among sets of letters, numbers, objects, pictures, or patterns. The things to be compared may be presented at the same time or one after the other. This ability also includes comparing a presented object with a remembered object. |
53.00 | Reaction Time | The ability to quickly respond (with the hand, finger, or foot) to a signal (sound, light, picture) when it appears. |
53.00 | Rate Control | The ability to time your movements or the movement of a piece of equipment in anticipation of changes in the speed and/or direction of a moving object or scene. |
53.00 | Selective Attention | The ability to concentrate on a task over a period of time without being distracted. |
50.00 | Far Vision | The ability to see details at a distance. |
50.00 | Depth Perception | The ability to judge which of several objects is closer or farther away from you, or to judge the distance between you and an object. |
50.00 | Speed of Limb Movement | The ability to quickly move the arms and legs. |
The data sources for the information displayed here include: O*NET™. (Using onet28)
Recycling and Reclamation Workers
Work Activities
% | Subject | Description |
---|---|---|
85.75 | Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or Subordinates | Providing information to supervisors, co-workers, and subordinates by telephone, in written form, e-mail, or in person. |
79.00 | Controlling Machines and Processes | Using either control mechanisms or direct physical activity to operate machines or processes (not including computers or vehicles). |
77.25 | Handling and Moving Objects | Using hands and arms in handling, installing, positioning, and moving materials, and manipulating things. |
76.50 | Inspecting Equipment, Structures, or Materials | Inspecting equipment, structures, or materials to identify the cause of errors or other problems or defects. |
73.25 | Getting Information | Observing, receiving, and otherwise obtaining information from all relevant sources. |
65.75 | Operating Vehicles, Mechanized Devices, or Equipment | Running, maneuvering, navigating, or driving vehicles or mechanized equipment, such as forklifts, passenger vehicles, aircraft, or watercraft. |
65.50 | Monitoring Processes, Materials, or Surroundings | Monitoring and reviewing information from materials, events, or the environment, to detect or assess problems. |
65.00 | Performing General Physical Activities | Performing physical activities that require considerable use of your arms and legs and moving your whole body, such as climbing, lifting, balancing, walking, stooping, and handling materials. |
63.50 | Training and Teaching Others | Identifying the educational needs of others, developing formal educational or training programs or classes, and teaching or instructing others. |
63.00 | Identifying Objects, Actions, and Events | Identifying information by categorizing, estimating, recognizing differences or similarities, and detecting changes in circumstances or events. |
60.00 | Coordinating the Work and Activities of Others | Getting members of a group to work together to accomplish tasks. |
57.50 | Judging the Qualities of Objects, Services, or People | Assessing the value, importance, or quality of things or people. |
57.00 | Organizing, Planning, and Prioritizing Work | Developing specific goals and plans to prioritize, organize, and accomplish your work. |
56.75 | Making Decisions and Solving Problems | Analyzing information and evaluating results to choose the best solution and solve problems. |
56.00 | Developing and Building Teams | Encouraging and building mutual trust, respect, and cooperation among team members. |
54.25 | Coaching and Developing Others | Identifying the developmental needs of others and coaching, mentoring, or otherwise helping others to improve their knowledge or skills. |
51.00 | Processing Information | Compiling, coding, categorizing, calculating, tabulating, auditing, or verifying information or data. |
51.00 | Scheduling Work and Activities | Scheduling events, programs, and activities, as well as the work of others. |
50.25 | Guiding, Directing, and Motivating Subordinates | Providing guidance and direction to subordinates, including setting performance standards and monitoring performance. |
The data sources for the information displayed here include: O*NET™. (Using onet28)
Recycling and Reclamation Workers
Work Styles
% | Subject | Description |
---|---|---|
77.75 | Dependability | Job requires being reliable, responsible, and dependable, and fulfilling obligations. |
74.00 | Integrity | Job requires being honest and ethical. |
70.50 | Self-Control | Job requires maintaining composure, keeping emotions in check, controlling anger, and avoiding aggressive behavior, even in very difficult situations. |
68.50 | Attention to Detail | Job requires being careful about detail and thorough in completing work tasks. |
67.75 | Cooperation | Job requires being pleasant with others on the job and displaying a good-natured, cooperative attitude. |
66.75 | Adaptability/Flexibility | Job requires being open to change (positive or negative) and to considerable variety in the workplace. |
65.00 | Achievement/Effort | Job requires establishing and maintaining personally challenging achievement goals and exerting effort toward mastering tasks. |
65.00 | Independence | Job requires developing one's own ways of doing things, guiding oneself with little or no supervision, and depending on oneself to get things done. |
64.75 | Initiative | Job requires a willingness to take on responsibilities and challenges. |
63.50 | Stress Tolerance | Job requires accepting criticism and dealing calmly and effectively with high-stress situations. |
63.00 | Concern for Others | Job requires being sensitive to others' needs and feelings and being understanding and helpful on the job. |
62.00 | Leadership | Job requires a willingness to lead, take charge, and offer opinions and direction. |
59.75 | Persistence | Job requires persistence in the face of obstacles. |
57.75 | Innovation | Job requires creativity and alternative thinking to develop new ideas for and answers to work-related problems. |
The data sources for the information displayed here include: O*NET™. (Using onet28)
Recycling and Reclamation Workers
Work Values
% | Subject | Description |
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The data sources for the information displayed here include: O*NET™. (Using onet28)
Recycling and Reclamation Workers
Work Context
% | Subject | Description |
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97.00 | Wear Common Protective or Safety Equipment such as Safety Shoes, Glasses, Gloves, Hearing Protection, Hard Hats, or Life Jackets | How much does this job require wearing common protective or safety equipment such as safety shoes, glasses, gloves, hard hats or life jackets? |
88.60 | Exposed to Contaminants | How often does this job require working exposed to contaminants (such as pollutants, gases, dust or odors)? |
86.60 | Spend Time Standing | How much does this job require standing? |
86.40 | Outdoors, Exposed to Weather | How often does this job require working outdoors, exposed to all weather conditions? |
84.80 | Spend Time Using Your Hands to Handle, Control, or Feel Objects, Tools, or Controls | How much does this job require using your hands to handle, control, or feel objects, tools or controls? |
80.40 | Contact With Others | How much does this job require the worker to be in contact with others (face-to-face, by telephone, or otherwise) in order to perform it? |
80.40 | Spend Time Making Repetitive Motions | How much does this job require making repetitive motions? |
78.80 | Face-to-Face Discussions | How often do you have to have face-to-face discussions with individuals or teams in this job? |
76.20 | Very Hot or Cold Temperatures | How often does this job require working in very hot (above 90 F degrees) or very cold (below 32 F degrees) temperatures? |
74.40 | Outdoors, Under Cover | How often does this job require working outdoors, under cover (e.g., structure with roof but no walls)? |
73.40 | Work With Work Group or Team | How important is it to work with others in a group or team in this job? |
72.80 | In an Open Vehicle or Equipment | How often does this job require working in an open vehicle or equipment (e.g., tractor)? |
72.20 | Responsible for Others' Health and Safety | How much responsibility is there for the health and safety of others in this job? |
72.00 | Structured versus Unstructured Work | To what extent is this job structured for the worker, rather than allowing the worker to determine tasks, priorities, and goals? |
71.60 | Sounds, Noise Levels Are Distracting or Uncomfortable | How often does this job require working exposed to sounds and noise levels that are distracting or uncomfortable? |
71.20 | Spend Time Bending or Twisting the Body | How much does this job require bending or twisting your body? |
71.20 | Spend Time Walking and Running | How much does this job require walking and running? |
70.80 | Responsibility for Outcomes and Results | How responsible is the worker for work outcomes and results of other workers? |
70.20 | Freedom to Make Decisions | How much decision making freedom, without supervision, does the job offer? |
70.00 | Time Pressure | How often does this job require the worker to meet strict deadlines? |
68.00 | Indoors, Not Environmentally Controlled | How often does this job require working indoors in non-controlled environmental conditions (e.g., warehouse without heat)? |
66.60 | Coordinate or Lead Others | How important is it to coordinate or lead others in accomplishing work activities in this job? |
66.40 | Physical Proximity | To what extent does this job require the worker to perform job tasks in close physical proximity to other people? |
65.60 | Impact of Decisions on Co-workers or Company Results | What results do your decisions usually have on other people or the image or reputation or financial resources of your employer? |
63.80 | In an Enclosed Vehicle or Equipment | How often does this job require working in a closed vehicle or equipment (e.g., car)? |
63.40 | Frequency of Decision Making | How frequently is the worker required to make decisions that affect other people, the financial resources, and/or the image and reputation of the organization? |
62.80 | Extremely Bright or Inadequate Lighting | How often does this job require working in extremely bright or inadequate lighting conditions? |
62.40 | Pace Determined by Speed of Equipment | How important is it to this job that the pace is determined by the speed of equipment or machinery? (This does not refer to keeping busy at all times on this job.) |
62.40 | Importance of Being Exact or Accurate | How important is being very exact or highly accurate in performing this job? |
61.00 | Exposed to Hazardous Equipment | How often does this job require exposure to hazardous equipment? |
59.40 | Consequence of Error | How serious would the result usually be if the worker made a mistake that was not readily correctable? |
59.40 | Telephone | How often do you have telephone conversations in this job? |
55.40 | Level of Competition | To what extent does this job require the worker to compete or to be aware of competitive pressures? |
54.40 | Exposed to Minor Burns, Cuts, Bites, or Stings | How often does this job require exposure to minor burns, cuts, bites, or stings? |
52.60 | Importance of Repeating Same Tasks | How important is repeating the same physical activities (e.g., key entry) or mental activities (e.g., checking entries in a ledger) over and over, without stopping, to performing this job? |
49.80 | Cramped Work Space, Awkward Positions | How often does this job require working in cramped work spaces that requires getting into awkward positions? |
The data sources for the information displayed here include: O*NET™. (Using onet28)
Recycling and Reclamation Workers
Job Zone Two: Some Preparation Needed
- Overall Experience
- Some previous work-related skill, knowledge, or experience is usually needed. For example, a teller would benefit from experience working directly with the public.
- Job Training
- Employees in these occupations need anywhere from a few months to one year of working with experienced employees. A recognized apprenticeship program may be associated with these occupations.
- Examples
- These occupations often involve using your knowledge and skills to help others. Examples include orderlies, counter and rental clerks, customer service representatives, security guards, upholsterers, tellers, and dental laboratory technicians.
- Education
- These occupations usually require a high school diploma.
The data sources for the information displayed here include: O*NET™. (Using onet28)
Recycling and Reclamation Workers
Earnings Benefits*
Region | Entry Level | Median | Experienced |
---|---|---|---|
United States | $27,610.00 | $36,110.00 | $42,470.00 |
Virginia | $26,530.00 | $35,570.00 | $43,030.00 |
Region | Entry Level | Median | Experienced |
Bay Consortium | $30,776.50 | $34,949.27 | $40,602.80 |
Capital Region Workforce Partnership | $31,048.10 | $38,408.19 | $45,274.01 |
Central VA/Region2000 | $26,706.75 | $32,377.97 | $38,294.77 |
Crater Area | $29,645.38 | $36,278.10 | $40,520.59 |
Greater Peninsula | $27,749.42 | $36,651.68 | $41,578.87 |
Hampton Roads | $28,839.96 | $37,120.98 | $41,598.64 |
New River/Mt. Rogers | $28,677.63 | $36,158.44 | $45,150.18 |
Northern Virginia and Alexandria/Arlington | No Data | No Data | No Data |
Piedmont Workforce | $28,378.98 | $36,603.81 | $42,751.62 |
Shenandoah Valley | No Data | No Data | No Data |
South Central | $27,230.17 | $32,040.82 | $36,385.28 |
Southwestern Virginia | $26,052.22 | $35,598.60 | $41,665.24 |
West Piedmont | $28,660.98 | $34,199.00 | $37,995.08 |
Western Virginia | $28,803.54 | $34,281.21 | $40,112.68 |
* Earnings Calculations:
Regional Earnings:
Entry = Annual mean of the lower 1/3 wage distribution;
Experienced = Annual mean of the upper 2/3 wage distribution.
National and State Earnings:
Entry = Annual 10th percentile wage;
Experienced = Annual 75th percentile wage.
The data sources for the information displayed here include: US Department of Labor (BLS); Virginia Workforce Connection. (Using onet28)
Recycling and Reclamation Workers
Employment Projections
Current | Projected | % Change | |
---|---|---|---|
United States | 2,806,500 | 2,974,800 | +6.0% |
Virginia | 51,451 | 58,836 | +14.4% |
Region | Current* | Projected | % Change |
Bay Consortium | 2,461 | 2,767 | +12.4% |
Capital Region Workforce Partnership | 9,288 | 10,978 | +18.2% |
Central VA/Region2000 | 1,868 | 1,987 | +6.4% |
Crater Area | 1,584 | 1,860 | +17.4% |
Greater Peninsula | 1,976 | 2,204 | +11.5% |
Hampton Roads | 9,357 | 10,352 | +10.6% |
New River/Mt. Rogers | 2,403 | 2,602 | +8.3% |
Northern Virginia and Alexandria/Arlington | No Data | No Data | No Data |
Piedmont Workforce | 1,986 | 2,151 | +8.3% |
Shenandoah Valley | 5,330 | 6,093 | +14.3% |
South Central | 546 | 606 | +11.0% |
Southwestern Virginia | 375 | 371 | -1.1% |
West Piedmont | 1,218 | 1,254 | +3.0% |
Western Virginia | 3,102 | 3,493 | +12.6% |
The data sources for the information displayed here include: US Department of Labor (BLS); Virginia Workforce Connection. (Using onet28)
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The data sources for the information displayed here include: O*NET™. (Using onet28)
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Occupations
The data sources for the information displayed here include: New York State Department of Labor; New Jersey Department of Labor; California Occupational Information Coordinating Committee; CareerOneStop. (Using onet28)
Recycling and Reclamation Workers
Proficiency Ratings
These proficiencies are scored on a scale from 1 to 5 with 1 being not
important to the job and 5 being extremely important to the job.
The data sources for the information displayed here include: O*NET™. (Using onet28)
Recycling and Reclamation Workers
Related Schools
There are no Related Schools at this time.The data sources for the information displayed here include: O*NET™. (Using onet28)